A1156 crash in Ipswich on 28 December 2017 at 18:00 involving a Vauxhall Mokka
A Vauxhall Mokka and a car were involved in a crash on the A1156 in Ipswich at 18:00 on Thursday 28 December 2017. The 24-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Mokka and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.07456, longitude 1.13117, in the IP1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ipswich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitehouse, Ipswich, IP1 5EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Ipswich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017370260319
- Council area
- Ipswich
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1156
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 2018.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 24 February 2018
9 m awayRef 2018370274552
Serious
Van crash on the A45 in Ipswich, 21 March 1985
44 m awayRef 1985371045600
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 17 January 2022
54 m awayRef 2022371133872
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A45 in Ipswich, 14 October 1982
56 m awayRef 1982371169900
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Ipswich, 31 July 2018
59 m awayRef 2018370322484
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A1156 in Ipswich, 27 October 1985
59 m awayRef 1985371182000
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Mokka
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2017370260319 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ipswich road accident statistics for 2017.